Shot in the Dark

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  • Disindoctrination

    On the one hand, it’s depressing that incoming college Freshmen need to be taught free speech. On the other hand, at least one University president is doing it.   BTW, Mitch Daniels 2020.

  • Consistency

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Dear Facebook Friend:  When someone with a knife hurts a bunch of people in St. Cloud, you tell me knives are no problem.  When someone with a car hurts a bunch of people in Ohio, you tell me cars are no problem.  When someone with a gun hurts a…

  • Come For The MNSure; Stay For The Corruption

    As the MNGOP rode back into a legislative majority on the collapse of MNSure, Donald Trump rode to office in DC promising to “drain the swamp”. I’m not sure if the next GOP candidate for governor will make a similar promise. But they sure could.  As Jeff Johnson points out in an op-ed in the…

  • The Most Ironic Berg’s Seventh Law Violation

    It’s long been one of the Dems’ favorite – and most childish – chanting points to say that Republicans, being stodgy fundamentalist WASPS, want to make sex impossible to have. If you follow Berg’s Seventh Law, you know the Democrats are actually doing something worse (or actually enacting the slur). And you would, as always,…

  • Don’t Let The Door Hit You

    Barbara Boxer is leaving Congress. Unfortunately, that departure is a result of being feted at a retirement party, rather than frog-walked out of her office by the FBI. But gone is gone – not that it matters much given California’s delegation.    It remains blinkered far-left, and is still home to some of the our…

  • Yet Again The Sky Fails To Fall

    My prediction – last week’s teapot-tempest about Trump talking with the Taiwanese president will redound to everyone’s benefit. So far, so good: But rumors of apocalypse were overstated. Beijing’s response, besides requesting that the U.S. not let [Taiwan’s presidentTsai Ing-wen pass through the U.S. in January on her way to Guatemala, has been muted. That…

  • 500 Turbocharged Weaselpower

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Levis bans guns in its stores  Doesn’t affect me, I don’t shop there anyway. The reason is peculiar.  A person with a permit to carry had an accidental discharge in one of their stores so they’re asking customers not to bring guns into their stores.  “You don’t need a…

  • Faster

    North Carolina congressman starts the ball rolling on carry permit reciproity: Rep. Richard Hudson, R-North Carolina, says he is preparing legislation that would allow those with concealed carry permits in their state to cross state lines. According to the Daily Caller, Hudson’s legislation would allow people with a state-issued concealed carry license to carry a…

  • Things I’ve Learned Over The Past Eight Years

    Racism is the only reason to follow Betty McCollum’s advice in this matter.

  • Sanctuary

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Being a sanctuary city is all the rage. It means local officials won’t enforce federal immigration laws.  Mayor Coleman claims it’s a states-rights issue: the feds can’t force local officials to do their jobs. Glad to see he’s come around on that point, it’s progress when a Democrat argues…

  • NPR’s “On The Media”: Fake Analysis Of “Fake News”

    There are a few things in the American media for which I have more contempt than the WNYC  program “On The Media”. I’ve written about it in the past – it’s an NPR show, hosted by Bob Garfield and Brooke Gladstone, that seems to be based around the premise the journalist is a noble order of high…

  • Mass Flagellation

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: If Liberals truly believe White Privilege is a thing, that they actually are morally unqualified to hold their jobs and live their lifestyles because of the vestiges of racism in America’s past, then they ought to pull their kids out of honor programs and STEM schools. They ought to…

  • Lie First, Lie Always: Non-Sequitur Violence

    My theory:  the Democrats, and left-leaning groups in general, are turning their focus to making big, broad, platitudinous statements designed to sound good to people who don’t really think about issues all that hard. Last week was a case in point; the Strib was pimping a piece purporting to show the costs of “gun violence”,…

  • Half The Story

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Google “Trump salary” and you’ll see endless articles claiming Trump is waiving the $400,000 annual salary as President.  No, he’s volunteering to become A Dollar A Year Man.  That’s an important distinction, as it evokes historical parallels to great men who sacrificed to save the nation in time of…

  • At Least Neville Chamberlain Realized He Was Wrong

    Our chattering classes had a projectile aneurysm over the weekend, when President-elect Trump spoke with Taiwan’s president: Mr Trump’s decision to turn his back on four decades of US protocol on Taiwan and speak directly to a president of Taiwan will stun policymakers in Beijing. Since his election last month, they have struggled to understand…

  • Metaphor Alert

    Does whatever you believe created the universe – God, biology, remorseless fate – have a sense of humor? The jeep carrying Fidel Castro’s remains broke down… …and had to be pushed the rest of the way. So you tell me.

  • Carry On My Wayward NARN

    Today, the Northern Alliance Radio Network – America’s first grass-roots talk radio show – is on the air! Today on the show, I’ll be in for Brad Carlson, who filled in for me yesterday. I’ll be discussing: The fraud of the “Alt Right”. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard…

  • When Tuned In Today

    I’m off on assignment today.  Brad Carlson will be filling in on the NARN from 1-3PM on AM1280. What’s he got up his sleeve?  Tune in! I‘ll be doing Brad’s Sunday show, 2-3PM tomorrow. Don’t forget – King Banaian is on from 9-11AM on AM1440, and Brad Carlson is normally heard on “The Closer” edition of the NARN Sundays…

  • They Tend To Be Shoddy Anyway

    Levi Strauss and company has opted to make their stores criminal-safe. Moms Want Action is all tingly about it – which, of course, means royalties for stock photo vendors!~ To be honest, I haven’t bought Levis in years; for the same money, Duluth jeans are much much better, and given their clientele, they’re way too smart…

  • …Or Cut Bait

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Well, who’d want to watch them anyway, the Vikings suck so who cares that bigshots get free box seats?  Joe Doakes When it comes to kleptocracy, it’s tempting to say “so you’re the richest, most powerful man…in Bolivia.  So what?” Box seats at the Vikings are like that. But…

  • Mark My Words

    Someday, when there is a post-cold-war style reckoning with the past crimes of the American media – and I realize this may be more an “afterlife” kind of thing – the ongoing effort by the American media to slander people not like them, politically speaking, will be an entire wing in the museum. Let’s allow…

  • Drip Drip Drip

    Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The authorities insist there is no evidence the Ohio State attacker had a membership card from ISIS.  Another member of Local 473 of the Amalgamated Union of Lone Wolf Muslim Terrorists.  Seriously, how many “lone wolves” does it take to make a pack?  Can’t anybody in the media admit…

  • Huh

    Do tell.

  • A Little More Equal

    When Governor Dayton, by way of trying to pitch the state on spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to upgrade Ziggy Wilf’s real estate for him, referred to the new US Bank Stadium as “The Peoples Stadium”, many of us couldn’t miss the inevitable reference connecting it to anything else labeled “Peoples”, like the “Democratic…

  • Dear Mother Jones

    To: Mother Jones Magazine From:  Mitch Berg, Deplorable Peasant Re:  Schadenfreud Dear MoJo: Ordinarily, I eschew schadenfreud. However, please be advised that I will gargle with your tears. That is all.

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